The Associated Press is reporting a university official said Erickson would be out of a job after not living up to expectations again this season. Erickson just completed his fifth season with the Sun Devils and has compiled a 31-30 record after his team completed the regular season 6-6 with losses in five of its last six games.

Erickson will meet with athletic director Lisa Love as early as Monday and, at 64, could be allowed to retire rather than be fired. Erickson could still coach in whatever bowl game the Sun Devils play in.

CBSSports.com reported that Erickson is under contract for one more year and his contract states that he would receive half of his remaining $1.5 million annual salary, which could be open for negotiation.

This season started out well for Arizona State. The Sun Devils sat 5-1 and were climbing the polls after three straight wins over USC, Oregon State at Utah. But after a loss at Oregon, followed by a win at home against Colorado, the Sun Devils lost successive games against UCLA, Washington State, Arizona and California, to close the season.

The Associated Press reports the final blows for Erickson's chances of keeping his job came with a disappointing home loss to rival Arizona, which had fired its coach and had won just two games at that point, followed by Friday's 47-39 loss to California at home.

"I don't know that I have ever been through a month like this," Erickson said after the loss to Cal. "We felt that we had a chance to have a great year, then you lose four in a row and just end up with a very, very average year."

Erickson won a pair of national titles with Miami and had stops at Oregon State and Idaho before arriving in Tempe in 2007. He had an impressive start in the desert, named the Pac-10 coach of the year after leading the Sun Devils to the Holiday Bowl and their first 10-win season in nine years.

That turned out to be the highlight of his tenure.

Arizona State won no more than six games the next three years, ineligible for a bowl last season because two of its games were against Football Championship Subdivision schools.

Love opted to stick with Erickson despite three straight shaky seasons and the Sun Devils went into this year with high expectations, returning nearly every starter on both sides of the ball.